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Beijing, Apr 29: Laden with whisky and baby milk, the first freight train linking China directly to the UK arrived in the eastern Chinese city of Yiwu today after a 12,000-kilometre (7,500-mile) trip, becoming the world's second-longest rail route. The journey is the latest effort in China's drive to strengthen trade links with western Europe along a modern-day "Silk Road" route. "The train

Washington, Apr 29: The first hundred days of the Trump administration have shown a positive trend for the Indo-US relationship and the upward trajectory of ties was expected to continue with bipartisan support for it, a former top Indian diplomat has said. On the eve of US President Donald Trump completing 100 days in office, former Indian Ambassador to the US Arun Singh said the Indo–US

Washington, Apr 28: 2017 will be among the hottest years on record, say scientists who have developed a new method for predicting global mean temperature. Researchers at Yale University in the US found that weak El Nino activity from 1998 until 2013, rather than a pause in long-term global warming, was the root cause for slower rates of increased surface temperature. They also found that volcanic

Washington, Apr 28: U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Thursday that China has threatened to impose sanctions on North Korea if it conducts further nuclear tests. Tillerson said China also told the U.S. that it had informed North Korea "that if they did conduct further nuclear tests, China would be taking sanctions actions on their own." Earlier Thursday, the senior U.S. Navy officer

Shanghai, Apr 27: China needs to raise its military capabilities to protect its growing overseas interests, its foreign minister said following the launch of China's first domestically built aircraft carrier, but he vowed not to pursue expansionism. China launched the carrier on Wednesday amid rising tension over North Korea and regional worries about Beijing's assertiveness in the South China Sea

Washington, Apr 26: US President Donald Trump has the reaffirmed his commitment to build a wall along the Mexico border amid reports that his plan may be halted in order to avoid a government shutdown. "The wall is going to get built, by the way,” Trump told reporters at the White House yesterday. The comments came after reports that the Republican Party is having second thoughts about the wall as

Washington, Apr 25: The US government put 271 Syrian chemists and other officials on its financial blacklist Monday, punishing them for their presumed role in the deadly chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town in early April. In one of its largest-ever sanctions announcements, the Treasury Department took aim at the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center (SSRC), which it said was

Seoul, Apr 24: An official North Korean website warned today that Pyongyang will "wipe out" the United States if Washington starts a war on the peninsula, the latest tit- for-tat sabre-rattling that has sent tensions soaring in the region. The US supercarrier Carl Vinson will arrive in waters off the Korean peninsula "in a matter of days", Vice President Mike Pence said Saturday, amid reports the

Paris, Apr 24: Centrist Emmanuel Macron finished ahead of far-right leader Marine Le Pen today to qualify alongside her for the runoff in France's presidential election, initial projections suggested. Macron was projected to score 23-24 percent, with Le Pen at 21.6-23 per cent, according to several polling institutes. If the first-round result is confirmed, it would put the 39-year-old pro-Europe

New Delhi, Apr 23: Appreciating that Indo-Israel ties were more “visible” after the Modi government has come to power, Israel said on Sunday that India's policy of not having a “zero-sum game” while dealing with the Jewish nation and the Arab countries has sent a strong message. Ahead of first prime ministerial visit from India, expected to take place in July, Israeli Ambassador here Daniel Carmon